Randall Goosby
Randall Goosby: Roots (Decca)
Goosby has all the technique anyone could need — but he still has a lot to learn about taste and selection
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
